The Diamond Retailer Summit has just occurred in Las Vegas and it was a tremendously newsworthy event. Marvel quietly announced that they were going to talk about what they are doing with the new Star Wars comic license in July and the next big event that will last until the rest of the year.

Marvel is unleashing two big events this year that will crossover into other serieses, much like Infinity and AVX. The first one is AXIS, which stars the Avengers and the X-Men teaming up to fight a modern day Axis of Evil. The villains will feature a team led by the Red Skull and includes Sabretooth, Doctor Doom, Loki, Green Goblin, and Carnage.

The second big Marvel event will start in early 2015 and is titled Time Runs Out. It is based on a big storyline right now about parallel dimensions being destroyed in order to preserve the current version of earth.

Earlier in the year Marvel was awarded the Star Wars comic book license away from Dark Horse. This July Marvel will officially announce the first few titles it intends to publish, leading up to Episode 7 dropping at the movie theatres next year.

Speaking of movies, there is a brand new Guardians of the Galaxies trailer that was released today. It is filled with a ton of new footage and we finally hear the voices of Rocket Racoon and his houseplant Groot. I give it 9 out of 10 ooga-chakas!

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“Earlier in the year Marvel announced that DC will not be renewing their Star Wars license ”
DC did not have a Star Wars license. Dark Horse Comics on the other hand, did.
Dark Horse announced that Disney did not renew the Dark Horse license.
Marvel made no announcenet on behalf of DC or Dark Horse, but did announce, on their own behlf, that Disney had awarded the license to Marvel.